u/DoorPale6084

Had about 7 years off bikes. Used to own an S1000RR and other reasonably fast bikes (XJ6 → GSXR1000 → MT09 → S1000RR → ZX10R). Truthfully though I wasn’t exactly Marquez, mostly road riding, occasional spirited blasts.

Went and test rode the new S1000RR recently.

Problem is… I absolutely loved it.

Comfortable, smooth, weirdly manageable around town, teleport machine when you open it up.

But it also immediately became obvious how rusty I am.

Power didn’t scare me at all. What scared me was how much skill I’d lost. Waddling off traffic lights, awkward slow speed manoeuvres, not feeling automatic anymore. Stuff I used to do without thinking felt clunky. Made me realise if I bought a $38k bike now I’d probably baby it and avoid practicing properly because dropping it would hurt.

So current thought is:
Buy something ~$10–15k for 6–12 months, rebuild skills, do some slow speed work, ride around town, maybe a CSS day, then jump back onto an S1000RR later.

Current candidate is MT07 HO or R7.

My hesitation:
In Australia almost everyone buys the LAMS versions of these. My concern is buying an HO and then when I upgrade later, finding out full licence riders don’t really buy them and the resale market is dead. But at the same time a restricted LAMS version feels a bit pointless coming from litre bikes.

Anyone actually owned/sold an MT07 HO or R7 HO in Aus?

Would you:
A) buy HO and accept resale
B) buy LAMS and derestrict later
C) skip both and get something else

Cheers.

I’ve heard there’s errors where it goes off without noise - that’s not what happened to me today.

I set my alarm for 450am, using the sleep schedule feature like I do every day. I put my phone on sleep mode and on the charger. I checked my lock screen before bed to see that the alarm was set for 450am. It was.

I slept.

At 620 my boss rang me asking me where I was. It was at that point I noticed my alarm didn’t even go off. I checked my phone watch everything, no alarm ringing quietly, no blip in my sleep tracking at 450.

Nothing.

Just didn’t ring at all

I theorise that every couple of years our phones will do this to us just to remind us who’s boss. To let us know, we are dependent to the tech, to be reminded that we crumble without it.

And in fairness I’m gonna get in big trouble for being late 😕

I’m aware of the attention aware glitch - I don’t use Face ID. I’ve had that glitch before, where I’ve woken up to my alarm ringing without sound, that’s annoying, but today that’s not what happened. It just didn’t go off

What to do bros